Wireless & Bluetooth on/off inconsistency

There are some problems in the way that the <Fn>+F5 combination works in this system (Thinkpad T42).

The following "list" describes the behaviour. Each line is a click of the <Fn>+F5 combination. "W" means Wireless LED is on, "B" means Bluetooth LED is on and "N" means that NetworkManager has Wireless enabled.

The starting situation is W,B,N which means that the Wireless and Bluetooth LEDs are on and that NetworkManager has Wireless enabled (all is ready for connections). From now on each line represents the status after the hotkey presses:
W, ,
W, ,N
W,B,
W,B,N
W, ,
W, ,N
W,B,
W,B,N
And so on...

So while nm-applet (using nm-applet in KDE because of bug #445164) is running, each click either disables or enables Wireless in NetworkManager. The Wireless LED never turns off. This behavior is confusing but workable.

Also note that every hotkey press that enables the Wireless on NetworkManager on ("N"), also makes the Wireless LED blink (turn off and immediately back on).

When I enable wireless through nm-applet's menu after it was disabled via the hotkey, it doesn't succeed to enable it. Under Wireless Network it says "device not ready". However, when it is already enabled, I can disable it and enable it again through nm-applet.

I hope this helps.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
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